When former St. James football coach Neal Posey saw his mentor, Jimmy Perry, was being honored with a stadium dedication on Friday, he didn’t hesitate to make the five-hour drive from his Tennessee home to Montgomery.
“As soon as I got something in the mail about the date, I matched it up and we were off that week,” said Posey, who followed Perry as the Trojans’ head coach in 2023 and is now the quarterbacks coach at East Tennessee State. “As long as I’m not out recruiting, we’re there. Everything I’ve done in coaching has been because of his mentorship, I’m just excited to be here tonight for this dedication.”
Dedicating the stadium to the school’s winningest coach might be an obvious choice but it was also an emotional one in honoring a Hall of Fame football coach who coached the Trojans to their first state championship in 2022, retired following the season and passed away after a battle with cancer in January…